[SheLion]

Groups that once got a $1000 per month from bingo are now getting less than $300. Dashney says the $20,000 his group expected last year has dwindled to perhaps $6,000 this year.

The ANTI'S could care LESS. They got THEIR way!!!!!!!

[SheLion]

Clubs are reporting a steep loss of revenue because smokers are staying away from bingo halls.

[patton]

"Bingo players smoke. I thought they would have come back after they sat out for a while," says Dashney. "I thought they would have been back into the frame of mind to play bingo with no smoke but they didn't come back."

Plato told him...

and general (yes, ma'am!) sherman told him...

It took a nipponized bit
of the old sixth avenue el
in the top of his head
to tell him

[Great Dane]

A year after the law took effect the smokers are still staying away, Council said in three months all will be back, the smokers will adjust....... no they won't.

City Council is soooo pi.... off that this issue is still on the front burner, sooner or later they will have to revisit.

City Council is also busy trying to talk sorounding small towns into adopting the same laws, but they have all seen whay happened in Ottawa.

[stands2reason]

"HA-ha!"---Nelson Muntz, "The Simpson's"

[Free State Four]

Oh, gee. I'm so surprised! Actions have consequences! Go figure!! fsf

[Publius6961]

Those perky unintended consequences!

and the worst is yet to come

[RikaStrom]

"I thought they would have been back into the frame of mind to play bingo with no smoke but they didn't come back."

He didn't really think all that much, did he?

Perhaps now they will own up to the fact that actions have consequences, and they've just stepped in the doo doo big time.

[verity]

Do you smoke?

[McGavin999]

There is an obvious solution to all of this. The anti-smokers MUST step up to the plate and make up the shortfall. After all, it was their meddling that brought about this problem.

[laredo44]

Charities say they have nowhere to turn for more cash.

Of course they have. They could demand things return to the way things were. Only a fool insist on going forward with a bad change, and they're not fools, right? Right?

[lodwick]

Puff and bttt

[mlocher]

where do i being? there are so many axioms that apply here.

to every action there is an equal and opposite reacion

hey, its [canada] a free country

they are voting with their pocket books <

[Gabz]

The Boys and Girls' isn't the only club hurting from bingo shortfalls.

EXCUSE me - I was under the impression that smoking bans were "for the children."

Here in Delaware, all but one fire company in the state is volunteer and most of them rely heavily on bingo revenues for their budgets. When the state granted the 3 race tracks the right to have slot machines bingo revenues tanked. Many of them cancelled bingo. Starting November 27 - the day before Thanksgiving - smoking will no longer be permitted.

So when the fire companies have no money and need more from the state I'm sure the easiest solution to increasing the annual grants to those organizations will be increased cigarette taxes.

They kick smokers out into the street and then expect us to happily pay more for the privilege.